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Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference

Reliability of the beamsplitter based Bell-state measurement

Yoon-Ho Kim, Warren P. Grice

Published Dec 10, 2005• 1 citation
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Abstract

A linear 50/50 beamsplitter, together with a coincidence measurement, has been widely used in quantum optical experiments, such as teleportation, dense coding, etc., for interferometrically distinguishing, measuring, or projecting onto one of the four two-photon polarization Bell-states |/spl Psi//sup (-)/>. In this paper, we demonstrate that the coincidence measurement at the output of a beamsplitter cannot be used as an absolute identifier of the input state |/spl Psi//sup (-)/> nor as an indication that the input photons have projected to the |/spl Psi//sup (-)/> state.

DOI
10.1109/qels.2005.1549055

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A linear 50-50 beam splitter, together with a coincidence measurement, has been widely used in quantum optical experiments, such as teleportation, dense coding, etc., for interferometrically distinguishing, measuring, or projecting onto one of the four two-photon polarization Bell states $|{\ensuremath{\psi}}^{(\ensuremath{-})}〉.$ In this paper, we demonstrate that the coincidence measurement at the output of a beam splitter cannot be used as an absolute identifier of the input state $|{\ensuremath{\psi}}^{(\ensuremath{-})}〉$ nor as an indication that the input photons have been projected to the $|{\ensuremath{\psi}}^{(\ensuremath{-})}〉$ state.
Bell state measurement is vital to quantum information technology. Conventional linear optical elements, however, cannot fully distinguish all polarization Bell states without assisting of additional degrees of freedom. Leveraging on a pair of binary-pixel metasurfaces, we demonstrate direct measurement of all four polarization Bell states. Each metasurface is designed to produce two output modes that linearly superpose three Bell states in the coincidence counting measurement. By rotating the polarizers, the coincidence counting measurement achieves a tunable anticorrelation between one and the other two Bell states, achieving Bell state detection efficiency of 75% in a single measurement. Complete and deterministic Bell state measurement is further realized by performing two measurements. Our work shows the advantage of utilization of metasurfaces in quantum detection schemes and is of great applicative interest for quantum dense coding, entanglement swapping, quantum teleportation protocols, and novel quantum information processing tasks.
Summary form only given. The idea of quantum teleportation is to utilize the nonlocal correlations between an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pair of particles to prepare a quantum system in some state, which is the exact replica of an arbitrary unknown state of a distant individual system. Three experiments in this direction were published recently. In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate a quantum teleportation scheme which satisfies all four of the above conditions. The input state is an arbitrary polarization state and the BSM can distinguish all four orthogonal Bell states so that the state has a 100% certainty to be teleported in principle. This is because the BSM is based on nonlinear interactions which are necessary and non-trivial physical processes for correlating the input state and the entangled EPR pair.
By using the quantum teleportation protocol, Alice can send an unknown quantum state (e.g. the polarization of a single photon) to Bob without ever knowing about it. This paper discusses a quantum teleportation experiment in which nonlinear interactions are used for the Bell state measurement. Since the Bell state measurement is based on nonlinear interactions, all four Bell states can be distinguished. Therefore, teleportation of a polarization state can occur with certainty, in principle. Details of the theory and the experimental set-up are discussed.
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Abstract Bell state measurements, which project bipartite states onto the maximally entangled Bell basis, are central to a wide range of quantum information processing tasks, including quantum teleportation, entanglement swapping, and fusion-gate quantum computation. In photonic platforms, where information is encoded in optical degrees of freedom, the realization of efficient Bell state measurements is particularly challenging, especially when constrained to linear optical elements. In this review, we provide a comprehensive examination of existing proposals for the implementation of Bell state measurements, highlighting their fundamental limitations and the strategies developed to overcome them. Moreover, we survey recent advances and discuss open challenges, with a particular focus on Bell state measurements for high-dimensional systems, an area of growing interest due to its relevance for quantum repeaters and scalable quantum networks.